Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TOLSTOY by A.N. Wilson. One of Britain's most accomplished comic novelists tackles a profoundly somber subject: a literary titan's turbulent relationships with God, Russia and women...
...Subject: THREAT TO CIVIL AVIATION...
...survived in Siena longer in the ornate altarpiece frames, the gold backgrounds, the exquisitely rhythmic and abstracted profiles. The natural world of woods, mountains, streams, sky and stars takes more time to become the frame of divine and biblical events, and, when it finally does, it is not the subject of botanical or geological curiosity. Trees are the ideas of trees; fruit and flowers are heraldic nature...
South Africa, for its part, is concerned that the Cubans may find a way to avoid living up to their end of the bargain. Despite a stipulation in the Brazzaville protocol that Cuba and Angola will reach an agreement on verification arrangements subject to U.N. Security Council approval, Botha has pushed strongly for guarantees that no Cuban troops will remain in Angola after the deadline. The Brazzaville agreement also did not address the continued presence in Angola of bases manned by anti-South African fighters of the African National Congress...
...opera is not the only unfinished business in The Lyre of Orpheus. Darcourt is struggling to complete his biography of his friend Francis Cornish and trying to fill a mysterious gap in his subject's life between 1937 and 1945; readers who remember What's Bred in the Bone already know the bizarre information Darcourt will discover, including the existence of a 16th century triptych with unmistakable ties to the 20th. And a potential blackmailer turns up, hoping to hold several characters responsible for deeds that occurred way back in The Rebel Angels...